How To Use Horologer In A Sentence
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Every large town will have quite a few horologers and jewelers with a vast selection of fancy watches displayed their windows, with huge price tags to go with them.
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David Ramsay, watchmaker and horologer to James I., was a real person, though the author has taken the liberty of pressing him into the service of fiction.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Émile Reynaud's father was an horologer and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Émile.
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At the top of the entry stairs stands a massive gilt astronomer's clock made by the great French horologer Detouche for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1855.
The Journe Identity
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Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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We mention these things at the mair length, because we would have you all to know, that it is not without due consideration of the circumstances of all parties, that we design, in a small and private way, to honour with our own royal presence the marriage of Lord Glenvarloch with Margaret Ramsay, daughter and heiress of David Ramsay, our horologer, and a cadet only thrice removed from the ancient house of Dalwolsey.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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A French horologer moved to Switzerland, carrying his trade with him, and as a result there soon grew up in Geneva a guild of workmen not to be outranked.
Christopher and the Clockmakers
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For horologers, the sky is also a perpetual source of inspiration.
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She may do very well for skippers 'wives, chandlers' daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty's horologer, excepting and saving myself.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Towards 1760, simultaneously in France and in England, two horologers succeeded in creating the first detached escapements.
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She may do very well for skippers’ wives, chandlers’ daughters, and such like; but nobody shall wait on pretty Mistress Margaret, the daughter of his most Sacred Majesty’s horologer, excepting and saving myself.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The Doctor referred him to Mr. George Graham, the distinguished horologer, inventor of the dead-beat escapement and the mercurial pendulum.
Men of Invention and Industry
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Seiko is one of the most prolific of these horologers with a huge scope of different theoretical accounts available.
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As to this nonpareil of lovely flesh and blood, her name was Lucy Mainspring, the daughter of a horologer, sir, -- a watchmaker -- _vulgo_ so called -- and though fattish, she was very fair -- fair! by Jupiter, (craving your honour's pardon for swearing,) she fairly made me give all other thoughts the cut, and twisted the passions of my heart with the red-hot torturing irons of love.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828
